LICHALP

Involucropyrenium tremniacense (A. Massal.) Breuss

Syn.: Catapyrenium tremniacense A. Massal., Dermatocarpon tremniacense (A. Massal.) J. Steiner, Involucrocarpon tremniacense (A. Massal.) Servít, Verrucaria tremniacensis (A. Massal.) Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a widespread terricolous species of open grasslands over more or less calcareous substrata; apparently most frequent in the Western and Southern Alps.